On: Code to joy: learning to code in middle age

[gaius]

As Scala and Clojure both have REPLs and now Java too[1] Groovy is totally irrelevant, but it still clings on in a few places.

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/java/jshell-and-repl-in-java-9

[linkmotif → gaius]

Yeah with lambdas and local type inference in Java it’s less and less relevant but it’s still dynamic and that can be great for tests and little scripts with Grape. I really enjoy Grape despite using it so rarely that I always need to look up how to do things.